A world-famous British scientist and philologist, Talbot was one of the inventors of photography who perfected the positive/negative process. He produced his first photographs on salted paper using the negative of a calotype, literally ‘the printing of beauty’, a method he patented in the spring of 1841. For the first time ever, it would be possible to reproduce copies using just a negative and a piece of paper. It was published in "The pencil of Nature"; its aim was to introduce to the public the different practical applications of photography, especially to those who didn’t know the art of drawing.
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